Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1887-03-08
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more than | have derived from the Arli'
Gle. be has written. vas amused when
he asserted he hsd nousht to say to my
las, communication, when he 80 exten-
.ively reviewed l.. To make the de-
.,rue,ion Of Pharaoh certain. he quotes
p. iS6-l5. Unfortunately fof him Il
doe. no, say drown. but overihrown.
Why, The P.almis, from the narrative
in EIolu. evidently disbelieVsd IL. i,
"a, as easy to ,ay drown a. over'hroWn.
Tie Hebrew writing, are highly meta
phor'c.l, the posiic.l ones eminen'ly 80.
Referring 10 the same even, the P.almi'i
says, ~. no. Ute mountains
.kipped like rams. aud the little hills
like lambs" A direct assertion with
no modification wha,ever. No one be-
lie,e. the mountain. and hills wefe seen
wal,rins over Arabia In their sSuosranee
Of Joy. A. the eNPonsn, OF the nation
Pharaoh. name l. u.ed IN connection
With nj. ho.,. 20 show that hi' power
then ceased % longer oPp'es' the Israel
iiss. Ia like manner We say boaa'
par,c and hi, boats wefc ovei'hiown a.
Waterloo. 20 represen, be wa' complete
IL .abiusd. and hi. dieiA'orial power end
ID ,s, be died Al s.. Helena. oace
heard c. va. ovsr,hro-n IN BIZ carriage
bat did no, for moment believe bin
dad. That Phusoh and be whole A..
my va, destroyed the narrative In kSo-
dus doe, no, sab.,aniiaie. AID pfoiane
history expressly state. that be and a
poriioa Of hi, army escaped.
Amer the passage of the R'd Sea, {.
says, With Pnar.oh hi'i'iy stop, but
continue. With Moses. II he mean. b.-
Ole history. be i, correct. i'f the simple
reason. Moe, wa, ~, writing the his
tor, Of Egypt. bu, Of the Jews. and -
AL rel.,,oa. With the Egyptians we're
then severed. and 40; resumed tll loas
Afterwards. Pharaoh 10 VI lse' hi'-
tory drop. from the record. II be means
profane history ihsn,'op.. he i much mis-
taken. R.-lin.on says. Kgypi aad Baty.
lou. Page lil). The Esipu.ns puf'aed
and wen, IN after them 10 the mli'i OF The
;, even Ill Pharaoh. horses. hisehario'''
ani hi. horsemsn. ba, no. 80 faf a. sP'
near. Phanoa him.elf Ths has been
disputed and P,. l36 lis has been qio-
ted a, positive prooi to the eoa'TA'y'
bat The expression q = poet wh' wrote
cen,urie. after the event ~oad b. very
weak evidence With respect 90 TIE Tact
beside. which hi. statement = not that
Pharaoh va. killed ba, that be wa' o'-
er,hrown. Neither the narrative IN TX.
II nor the song Of ~ lieins In the iol-
losing chsp,sr coniains the slightest al
lu.ioa to the Pharaoh. death. an oni.-
.ion Almo., ineonoeiv.ble II be really
peri.hed With hi. wArfl0rs
A. R,wlin.on wrote Egyp' nad bi'y'
ion for the expires, purPj'c OF p'ovns
the Bible true. by history. his remarks
have the greater significance. In bis
History y EgW'. Vol II. page 296. BE-
say. be escaped and give. an account OF
Ai. .ab,squsa, reisn. bis battles and his
death. The follo~ins historians eonhfm
the same: wilsinsoa. AncisHi EgyP.
Vol. /. page 50; ChAb". Egyf. Pase
i52: L-normAn,. Egyp'. Vol II. page
2g6. In the book oi Jsshsr, page 5sj'
II ..v. Pharaoh was no, dfowntd.
oar bss, writer. differ in respect -
which Of the Pharsoss reignsd A. the
time Of the Exodus. bu, nearly al agree
ih., il was during the l9lh dynss'y
This "a. the period in which R.mese'
I, n, and III r,igned. Chambsr's Ea-
c,cloP,diA, Vol. XII. page ii9, "y, a
R.meses reigned A. the EHoia''
and cites Lsp.ius. Einlsi,. ChabAs. Mel
1nge. and Bfas,eh 20 substantive u.
Which R.mssss va. il ; R,msse' |. was
OF bat little note aud according 20 Man-
e,ho reisned li,,le more than year.
R.ms.e. II aud III were po~erfal PhA-
r.oh., their united relsns ~efe more than
100 years. They have boh been dis,ov-
cred by MAspeio II IL was Manep'hah
Who ruled al that time and who. Raw
lin.oa says. succeeded Rameses Ill. bat
Kenric ssys preceded him, history gives
the account Of hi. death. bat no, by
drowsins. Al.o B.lz,ni Museum Of
An,iq. page s36) discovered the slrcoPh'
agu. which contained his body. and h'
va. no, fJundsrrd in the Red Sea.
&. says he learns by looking over ,hs
expressed opinions OF the l>dfHy minds
o. the presen, age. iha, they have bat
little faith in the fad Of certain Mas.
pero whom he and and the ic0rd know
bu, little about aud whose story Of hnd
iug Old PharAoh's mummy has bat LITTLE
credi, with the mass Of intelligent people
ia the trorld lndeed C's intercourse
with the mass Of the iniellisen, world
since the discovery June /, 1856 has been
rery extensive. jus, about the same as
hi. knowledge Of history.
Now. tell me who are those leading
mind. Of the world you have looked over
since that time; Name them
The Library Magazine alluds' to
Ms.pero'. discovery as important, and
Chsmber's Journal says; "For the sake
Of those whose faith may 10, be very
strong, le, US add ,ha, the mummy va.
opened by Ma.pero and Brugsch-,"o
Of our creates, Egyptian Esyp,ologis,s-
in presence Of Q large number Of people,
Easli.h as well as Egyptian. who serih ID
the oiiicial s,stsmen, made by the high
priest Peno,em on the csfin Id. and on
the outer winding sheet of the mummy
,ha, this wss in truth the body OF Ram
eses H." Well, the world knows but
little (l) OF M.'pero!
c. admits Msspero has found some Of
Rsypts ancient kings, Pharaoh'). Tel
me their names and how did MasPer'
lno,g they were kings, Did he identity
them by that remarkable ink that -
troubles his mind'
R.meses II oppressed the Jews for 6
years and ,hA, he has been found il n
supposi,iOn, bu, fact.
Preponderanee OF opinion Is no proc
Of point. When Gslilee asserted ID
CopernieAn system to be true the prePon
der.nce Of opinion WAS so much agsin'
him that be was obliged to reiraet .
alr -. A. al ..... -. forrff